A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet… ...

The assembly modules are that way by necessity: (1) intensely performance sensitive code that is way better (much more than a factor of two) than what the compiler delivers, (2) hardware-specific code ...

I enjoy assembly language programming. Ever since college with the VAX, then 8086, Z80, 68XXX, Intel 32, 64 bit, and of course ARM. Mostly just drivers, graphic subroutines, startup code and such ...

The HLA (High Level Assembly) language was developed as a tool to help teach assembly language programming and machine organization to University students at the University of California, Riverside.

A program called an assembler is then used to convert from the assembly language to the machine code. Assembly language Earlier I mentioned that 0x0120 means “put 1 in register 0.” ...

For example, 20 lines of code in Java might easily require 200 lines of code in assembly language. In addition, measuring lines of code says absolutely nothing about code quality.

An Example of Assembly Code (source: Wikipedia) Assembly, or asm, features "a very strong (generally one-to-one) correspondence between the language and the architecture's machine code instructions," ...